Psalms 68:7

O God, when you lead your people into battle, ¹  when you march through the desert, ²  (Selah)

When you went out before your people, O God, when you marched through the wasteland, Selah

O God, when You went forth before Your people, When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.

O God, when you led your people from Egypt, when you marched through the wilderness, Interlude

God, when you took the lead with your people, when you marched out into the wild,

O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)

O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah

O God, when You went out before Your people, When You marched through the wilderness, Selah

O God, when you lead your people into battle, ¹  when you march through the desert, ²  (Selah)

¹ tn Heb “when you go out before your people.” The Hebrew idiom “go out before” is used here in a militaristic sense of leading troops into battle (see Judg 4:14; 9:39; 2 Sam 5:24).

² sn When you march through the desert. Some interpreters think that v. 7 alludes to Israel’s exodus from Egypt and its subsequent travels in the desert. Another option is that v. 7, like v. 8, echoes Judg 5:4, which describes how the God of Sinai marched across the desert regions to do battle with Sisera and his Canaanite army.